Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd Aug 2007 17:11 UTC, submitted by maxton
Phil Hester, AMD's chief technology officer, stopped by the Hot Chips conference here at Stanford University on Tuesday to talk a little more about Fusion, AMD's plan to integrate a graphics processor and PC processor onto the same chip. By the time the chip is ready around 2009, Hester thinks the growing explosion of video and 3D graphics on PCs these days will require an affordable chip that still delivers great graphics performance.
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Member since:2006-01-04
Intel never has required a special proprietary driver for 80x87 coprocessor or SSE extensions. All Instructions Set for x87 are publicly available.
AMD, normally, shouldn't do the same for his own processors ?
A GPU can be used for other type of computation like a vector coprocessor, not only for execution of OpenGL translation calls, but for scientific or engineering applications.
Look at
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~vislab/papers/GPUcluster_SC2004.pdf
http://www.eetasia.com/ART_8800367818_480100_e03ee92e.HTM
or
http://people.scs.fsu.edu/~blanco/gpusc/gpusc_project.htm
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2006-10-11
Unless, of course, they require proprietary drivers.